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From: rbrink@hubcap.clemson.edu (rickie brink)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Silicon Valley Dumpster Crawl: The ideal Hacker Holiday?
Message-ID: <10268@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 90 17:11:18 GMT
References: <1990Aug30.062306.7138@xrtll.uucp>
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Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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From article <1990Aug30.062306.7138@xrtll.uucp>, by frankl@xrtll.uucp (Frank Lemire):
> 
>   I think your idea is great, but probably unworkable.  I'm also a "garbage-
> picker" by hobby (found over $700 of unused photographic paper this way
> a week ago) but I've found that if you go thrashing around large corperations
> (like IBM, DEC, etc) you are inviting trouble.  Most of the multi-national 
> companies that have building here in Toronto usually have fences around the 
> place, and keep their garbage in large bins until the waste-collection
> comapany comes to get it.
>  
>   I'd suggest hanging around Universities, office buildings, small offices,
> that kind of thing, but DONT be caught tresspassing at night at Bell Canada
> (like I was, but it wasn't a problem, the guard thought I was a bum..)
>  
Be prepaired to do some fast talking, or better yet, have a friend with bail
money at home.  Most Municipalities are out-lawing the old "trash-can-crawl".
They don't want to get sued by someone who gets hurt.  There lawers tell
them they have an unassumed liability, because they don't outlaw it.  But
no one bothers to tell the cops who bust you that the law is just to keep
you from sueing the county (etc.)  I'll never for get the night I was removing
some parts from Panel tossed in the trash a Univ. of Miami (FL).  The cop
flashed a light in my face, then started laughing.  He laughed for 2 or 3
minutes and then said "I ain't never seen a white man in a dumpster before!"
No racial slight intended, but it's the only reason he didn't arest me,
I had broken the quiet of his shift with something "he" thought was funny.
I started taking my girlfriend to post a watch...

>   Enjoy your trashing, you'll find some treasures.
> -- 
Watch out for rats, and for gods sake, don't molest the cats.  When they 
are gone, it will just be us and the rats....not a calming thought.

RBrink@Clemson.edu